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History 12 Week 17 Detente
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12th Grade
06/09/2009

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United Nations
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large organization created to maintain world peace and security
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Security Council
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the 15 member countries of the United Nations that makes major resolutions
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General Assembly
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the large body of the United Nations that consits of all the member countries
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Soviet leader who succeeded Khrushchev and tried to ensure communist nations adhered to Soviet ideology
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Prague Spring
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1968 Czechoslovakian period of political and social freedoms that led to a brutal Soviet invasion
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Lech Walesa
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leader of the Polish workers in 1980 who organized mass strikes in the struggle to form labour unions
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Solidarity
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working class labour movement that gained national support in Poland
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detente
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a thawing of Cold War tensions
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Sino-Soviet split
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tensions between two superpowers that led to stronger US relations with China and Nixon's visit to China
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Ost Politik
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detente between East and West Germany
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SALT
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pact between the US and Soviet Union to reduce their supplies of nuclear weapons
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ping pong diplomacy
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term given to China's invitation for the American table tennis team to vist for a competition
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Helsinki Accord
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an agreement signed by 35 countries to guarantee borders of European countries and to strengthen human rights
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mujahideen
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Afghan independence fighters who opposed the Soviets
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Afghanistan
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country invaded by the Soviet Union
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Partial Test Ban Treaty
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banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater
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MAD
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the idea that devastation caused by nuclear war leaves no victors (mutually assured destruction)
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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prevented nuclear powers from giving non-nuclear powers technology to build bombs
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Star Wars
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controversial American missile defense program
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Nelson Mandela
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inspirational South African civil rights leader
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